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  • A nonhot boy stares at you relentlessly and it is, at best, awkward and, at worst, a form of assault.†   (source)
  • Of all the neighborhood boys who tortured Ali, Assef was by far the most relentless.†   (source)
  • On the afternoon of my encounter with Peeta Mellark, the rain was falling in relentless icy sheets.†   (source)
  • More like a swordfish twisting on a line, and that line is pulling him relentlessly toward ….†   (source)
  • Louie, still in the greenhouse, saw rounds ripping through the Zeros' fuselages and wings, but the planes were relentless.†   (source)
  • A kind and generous man, Lewis Krakauer loved his five children deeply, in the autocratic way of fathers, but his worldview was colored by a relentlessly competitive nature.†   (source)
  • The most relentless of his new fears was that they would starve.†   (source)
  • Sam Westing was not murdered, but one of his heirs was guilty—guilty of some offense against a relentless man.†   (source)
  • The war went on and on, a relentless motor.†   (source)
  • As a trainer, she was relentless and precise, moving with the same crisp economy Edgar had noticed in teachers and nurses.†   (source)
  • I tried my best to be a worthy representative of my homeland, but, like a Hollywood celebrity relentlessly pursued by paparazzi, I sometimes got tired of the questions.†   (source)
  • They change relentlessly.†   (source)
  • He pushed and swatted at his attacker, a relentless jumble of skin and bones cavorting on top of him as he tried to gain purchase.†   (source)
  • My opponent's movements were relentless and precise, and I spent the first few waves just trying to evade him.†   (source)
  • Only a familiar territory will allow them to fulfill the two relentless imperatives of the wild: the avoidance of enemies and the getting of food and water.†   (source)
  • With that, the high-pitched noise moved to the background, layered atop a second noise, a loose, relentless rumble-the sound of a running river-and the whiteness shrank to a sun spot reflecting off shimmering waters.†   (source)
  • Teabing's voice was relentless.†   (source)
  • One of the Specials was only a stone's throw away, scanning the forest with slow back-and-forth sweeps of his head, his eyes searching the dense trees relentlessly.†   (source)
  • The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth.†   (source)
  • But she began to see his desperate and relentless focus on her as something closer to obsessive need than love.†   (source)
  • Their relentless staring was starting to annoy him.†   (source)
  • But the most debilitating was a burning sensation in his hands and feet; relentless, pulsing, it would leave him unable to focus on anything else.†   (source)
  • The wind had let up, but the cold rain still fell relentlessly from some endless reservoir in the sky.†   (source)
  • The jury of nine women and three men seemed predisposed to hand down a third conviction; all of them, having been subjected to six years of relentless publicity, admitted that they knew about the case and were aware that two prior juries had already found Williams guilty.†   (source)
  • They told us the departing Jews were going to better lives away from the city, where they would be in less crowded conditions and not have to endure the relentless harassment from German soldiers patrolling the streets.†   (source)
  • The wind and the high June sun were relentless.†   (source)
  • Even now, they stood nearby, watching him relentlessly.†   (source)
  • He put his hands over his head as we kicked him relentlessly and left him lying on the floor bleeding and unconscious.†   (source)
  • White was a compact, trimly built man who played an aggressive, relentless game of squash—daily.†   (source)
  • He was relentlessly cheerful, even in the face of Mom's rising anger.†   (source)
  • A big station clock rattles off a relentless advance of seconds, and Marie-Laure sits beside her great-uncle and listens to the wasted and wretched shamble off the trains.†   (source)
  • There were always adults available to encourage this relentless preening.†   (source)
  • And she was the queen, able to move in all directions, relentless in her pursuit, always able to find my weakest spots.†   (source)
  • She would feel it then, creeping up the side of her calves and into her gut, the onslaught, the grief coming, the tears like a small relentless army approaching the front lines of her eyes, and she would breathe in, taking a large gulp of air to try to stop herself from crying in a public place.†   (source)
  • They had had enough of hiding and just didn't understand how relentless the media could be.†   (source)
  • At the opposite end of the table sat the two ministers, Reverend John Woodbridge and Dr. Gershom Bulkeley, both famed for their relentless sermons against witchcraft.†   (source)
  • I stood in a daze, as Mother badgered me relentlessly.†   (source)
  • The relentless uniformity of it upsets him profoundly, more so than even the hospital, and the sight of his father's face.†   (source)
  • Year in, year out, as far back as history is recorded, farmers from across Asia have engaged in the same relentless, intricate pattern of agriculture.†   (source)
  • Yet every night, some time before the dawn, Drogo would come to her tent and wake her in the dark, to ride her as relentlessly as he rode his stallion.†   (source)
  • Which is good, because they tease me about Dave relentlessly.†   (source)
  • Relentlessly submissive.†   (source)
  • She still wore her long veil, blindingly bright beneath the relentless sun.†   (source)
  • "Let's be moving," said Jack relentlessly, "we're wasting time."†   (source)
  • It was relentless, a powerful confirmation of what they had shared the day before.†   (source)
  • It moved relentlessly toward the hospital, which squatted at the compound's end.†   (source)
  • Though radium often causes relentless nausea, vomiting, weakness, and anemia, there's no record of Henrietta having any side effects, and no one remembers her complaining of feeling sick.†   (source)
  • In fact he was so relentless in sidestepping my apologies and directing his anger full-bore on Hobie that I was starting to think that I had stumbled into some preexisting grudge or hatred.†   (source)
  • The Criminal Element said that it was a good idea to engage in relentless, open-ended questioning.†   (source)
  • That's when you realize that most of it—life, the relentless mechanism of existing—isn't about you.†   (source)
  • The other Hogwarts students tease Scorpius about it relentlessly—if the Ministry could release a statement reaffirming that all Time Turners were destroyed in the Battle of the Department of Mysteries ….†   (source)
  • The soldiers chased him relentlessly.†   (source)
  • "Oh my God, you're relentless," I say, throwing my hands up.†   (source)
  • Here was a tangible remnant of the Riders' glory, tarnished though it was by the relentless pull of time.†   (source)
  • While he walked me to English, when he met me after Spanish, all through the lunch hour, he questioned me relentlessly about every insignificant detail of my existence.†   (source)
  • Again, the trend was gradual but relentless, until the early 2000s when, on average, NFL quarterbacks made good on 60 percent of their throws.†   (source)
  • He was absolutely relentless, and he really loved Morgan and me, two of only six survivors in the class.†   (source)
  • They were relentless, bringing new poems every day for an entire week.†   (source)
  • Some readers find relentless irony difficult to warm to, and some writers find that being ironic carries perils.†   (source)
  • The afternoon was relentless, and her score barely reached 93.†   (source)
  • The cold has invaded my body now, seeped into my bones, a cold like no other I have ever felt, penetrating, relentless.†   (source)
  • It was impossible to recognize that stooped and shabby little man in the glorious figure at the door, greeting newcomers with a formal welcome followed by a relentless tour of the shop.†   (source)
  • I became aware of a distant thump, thump, thump—a quick, relentless pulse that got louder and louder.†   (source)
  • He slams the window shut, strangling the relentless keening of the smoke alarm.†   (source)
  • Tomorrowland encompassed everything from space travel to the household appliances of the future, depicting progress as a relentless march toward greater convenience for consumers.†   (source)
  • She left and he looked stupidly at the charcoal grill something meant for an outdoor summer patio which now stood in his room, calling up relentless images of idols and sacrifices.†   (source)
  • With a zeal rivaled only by Alex Haley's relentless search for Kunta Kinte, he dived into Dale's seamy background, where he discovered the above story to be absolutely true and correct.†   (source)
  • He would train relentlessly, speak of himself in the third person, load up on carbohydrates.†   (source)
  • His father went quietly and relentlessly on.†   (source)
  • Recently, after enduring more than half a century of relentless, pernickety attention, the ornamental garden had been abandoned.†   (source)
  • The stone floor of the greenhouse was cold against her bare legs, but it was pleasant after so many days of relentless heat.†   (source)
  • Though we may deplore and condemn such actions from a humane point of view, we still have to acknowledge their unconditional, relentless and irrevocable nature.†   (source)
  • That night Mack slept in fits and starts as the images continued to pound him, like relentless waves on a rocky shore.†   (source)
  • It is restless and relentlessly grey.†   (source)
  • Amy's relentless achieving is greeted with open-palmed acceptance and maybe a bit of pity.†   (source)
  • The energy sphere of the planet is there to see and understand—a relentless process, but a process nonetheless.†   (source)
  • To her credit, Kathy Usher is a relentless researcher.†   (source)
  • At first it wasn't so relentless.†   (source)
  • Children serve as impossible-to-ignore, in-your-face timepieces, marking the relentless march of one's life through what otherwise might seem an infinite sea of minutes, hours, days, and years.†   (source)
  • A typical likeness is the way the world is seen as being the subject of a drama in which the forces of Good and Evil confront each other in a relentless struggle.†   (source)
  • No one could have convinced them that they were not relentlessly and aggressively ugly.†   (source)
  • It seemed hard to believe that he was a lonely person, searching relentlessly in bottles, under women's skirts, in church work and lofty job titles for his "personal niche," lost before birth and unrecovered since.†   (source)
  • Miss Rachel flailed relentlessly at a heaving tangle of lily pads, bed sheet, legs and arms, and twining ivy.†   (source)
  • I ran the company for thirty-five years—almost all the time in the midst of relentless bickering.†   (source)
  • He would putter blandly along, then suddenly, unexpectedly, as if to remind himself he was still in charge of something, he would burst out like that, his intentions right, but his manner stubborn and relentless, forcing distances between us.†   (source)
  • Once he was determined, once he had focused on an object, the Prince was relentless.†   (source)
  • Money was greatly on his mind, though not as relentlessly as it had been earlier in the day-a day he'd begun "without the price of a cat's miaow."†   (source)
  • And Ida, relentlessly, put Cass' unspoken question into words.†   (source)
  • What had been more or less de facto was to become relentlessly de jure.†   (source)
  • IN HAMILTON, THE TEMPERATURE creeps up into the nineties, the sun beats relentlessly on the lot, and the lemonade goes missing.†   (source)
  • And if he punishes us relentlessly, it's a sign that He loves us all the more.†   (source)
  • Snow Began to Fall come dusk lovely tangos wind and flake silent wisps growing bold wicked relentless hinting winter's random temper breath taking dazzling lifting me to heights I'd never approached silver frosted morning white landscape reflecting purple painted sky but as Newton would opine what goes skyward must surely crash.†   (source)
  • "If you cross me"—the Commandant holds my eyes relentlessly—"you'll join the faces on that wall.†   (source)
  • Low, relentless, brute power.†   (source)
  • The seven mysterious proteins that, assembled together, make up the Ebola-virus particle, work as a relentless machine, a molecular shark, and they consume the body as the virus makes copies of itself.†   (source)
  • During the next two years the Kabila government engaged in a relentless purge of anyone it thought might have been associated with the plots against him—especially Tutsis from eastern Congo, and anyone who had ever had anything to do with Masasu.†   (source)
  • The relentless pursuit of equity and justice.†   (source)
  • He chatted on relentlessly, as they made their way back.†   (source)
  • I had to be relentlessly on my toes to avoid anything that could possibly tarnish my image, my family's image, or the country at large.†   (source)
  • The song went on, filling the air between us with its rapid pulse and relentless guitars.†   (source)
  • It had been rising relentlessly—a graph plotting the crime rate in any American city over recent decades looked like a ski slope in profile and it seemed now to herald the end of the world as we knew it.†   (source)
  • He had seen them as he passed by, sitting in their parlors with an absorbed look and folded arms, feeling unbroken time pass, relentless times, because it was useless to divide it into months and years, and the days into hours, when one could do nothing but contemplate the rain.†   (source)
  • They were effective in stopping the fire's spread west, but the wind pushed it north and east relentlessly.†   (source)
  • And as I hugged them as hard and relentlessly as only a girl drunk on tequila can, it sank in on me that this was really goodbye.†   (source)
  • Ellie might not look at him, but she didn't pursue him relentlessly with words, as Clara did.†   (source)
  • Mukhtar didn't speak with sophistication or learning, but she was relentless and effective.†   (source)
  • The rain beats down relentlessly, mixing with the strangled sounds of Felicity's sobbing.†   (source)
  • In the background the sounds of gunshots were relentless.†   (source)
  • Adam's relentlessness crossed over onto the football field, where he was the star tackler and earned the defensive player of the year award before the Browns moved again, this time to Indian Springs, Nevada.†   (source)
  • But our teachers continued, relentlessly.†   (source)
  • Beyond Korphe K2, the ice peaks of the inner Karakoram knifed relentlessly into a defenseless blue sky.†   (source)
  • He's relentless.†   (source)
  • And the clock moved relentlessly on: ten, half after, eleven, half after.†   (source)
  • The shelling had been relentless.†   (source)
  • I knew only the Lestat who sneered at my library, called it a pile of dust, ridiculed relentlessly my reading, my meditations.†   (source)
  • They brought in old Pedro Garcia, who shuffled in looking so dark, small, and toothless that Esteban was surprised at this sign of time's relentless passage.†   (source)
  • For hours they stared relentlessly at the scarlet ribbon on the map and hated it because it would not move up high enough to encompass the city.†   (source)
  • Men, women, and children continued to die from these ailments and from the relentlessly frigid nights.†   (source)
  • Up and down the door I could see the words desperate / relentless / condemned / empowered.†   (source)
  • He relentlessly searched out a great beauty—and then he took her!†   (source)
  • Only in calculus, his forte, has he managed to stay afloat through relentless effort.†   (source)
  • Our teachers pushed us relentlessly.†   (source)
  • Henry was relentless that year, chasing me, pulling my pigtails.†   (source)
  • The sirens droned on, a soprano counterpoint to the bombs' relentless bass, their pitch so eerily human it sounded like every soul in London had taken to their rooftops to cry out collective despair.†   (source)
  • 'The first thing I'd done when I woke up that morning'after acknowledging my pounding, relentless headache'was try to piece together the events from the day before.†   (source)
  • But so relentless was her pain that Sister couldn't acknowledge Matron's kindness.†   (source)
  • Well, except relentless Liz, who stopped by once a week to drop off a CD mix of whatever new music she was loving, which she cheerfully stacked on top of the untouched CD she'd left the week before.†   (source)
  • Danny pushed himself relentlessly in his work.†   (source)
  • The jurors, who had been so relentlessly bored the entire day before, were wide-awake and eager to witness this unexpected twist in the case.†   (source)
  • I know that man; he's relentless.†   (source)
  • But Norberto was relentless, showing Cesar that he could walk just fine.†   (source)
  • "Anyway, the thing is that the shepherd showed me how to get a lamb to suck milk off your fingers," the girl went on relentlessly.†   (source)
  • They lead the relentless foreigners to the houses of their neighbors and strip poor women and children of everything they have to eat or wear; and after plundering them in this sort, the brutes often ravish the mothers and daughters and compel the fathers and sons to behold their brutality.†   (source)
  • Dr. Randolph Gates found a relentless wave on which to ride, a mellifluous voice with which to speak, and a growing acerbic vocabulary to match the dawning new era.†   (source)
  • The woman's relentless jollity irritated her.†   (source)
  • He drove recklessly, with the expectation of relentless pursuit, which didn't occur.†   (source)
  • I could recall my father's voice, doctrinaire, relentless.†   (source)
  • Attolia attacked relentlessly and secured one island after another.†   (source)
  • Maybe it was my performance dragging the defensive tackle into the bathroom stall, or maybe it was my relentless determination to never lose any of the drills; but for whatever reason, the offense selected me—a freshman quarterback.†   (source)
  • Our tour of sites began to seem relentless.†   (source)
  • Now Nikita Khrushchev's relentless quest for power has put the world on the brink of nuclear war.†   (source)
  • Moral perfection is an unbreached rationality-not the degree of your intelligence, but the full and relentless use of your mind, not the extent of your knowledge, but the acceptance of reason as an absolute.†   (source)
  • He courted darkness, shadows, just as relentlessly as he courted the light.†   (source)
  • His long right arm shot out, and he grabbed Sam's wrist: his fingers were like a vice; slowly and relentlessly he bent the hand down and forward, till with a cry of pain Sam released the sword and it fell to the ground; and all the while Gollum's other hand was tightening on Sam's throat.†   (source)
  • But McLean relentlessly presses ahead with the questioning.†   (source)
  • Regardless of the fee, Baldwin was a relentless defender and rarely lost in court.†   (source)
  • Sweat poured down his face, stinging his eyes as he pressed the offensive at a relentless pace.†   (source)
  • Whatever was coursing through his body, whether food poisoning, an infection acquired from one of the invalids at the resort, or something else, was fast, relentless, and growing in its power.†   (source)
  • Relentless, it will soon crush the car like an eggshell.†   (source)
  • But Junior Whitshank was dry as a bone, droning on relentlessly while the other diners ate their food in dogged silence.†   (source)
  • There were no mountains or trees to block the cold bite of the relentless eastern wind, carrying the frosty air from Reghed Glacier.†   (source)
  • His elegant hands relentless so that her cries came out in whimpers of shock and gratitude.†   (source)
  • The Fragility of Industrial Profit It's tempting to look to the owners of Standard Motor Products and ask them to help Maddie out: to cut costs a little less relentlessly, take slightly lower profits, and maybe even help solve America's jobs crisis in some small way.†   (source)
  • Under his relentless interrogation, Natalie's sense of time deserted her.†   (source)
  • Yet he continued, with just that sort of relentless bantering she seemed to attract from men who were married; until finally, happily, it did begin to seem almost all right, what had happened.†   (source)
  • There was a chill in the wind during the last days the sun occupied a summer place in the sky—and something relentless in the way the wind drove the sand and dust ahead of it.†   (source)
  • Afternoons, she dreaded the relentless downsweep of the hour hand, which at five guillotined her day.†   (source)
  • Loren Passerine, on his podium, hovered like a puppet-master, his eyes bright, his smile practiced and relentless.†   (source)
  • I had admired his journals inordinately, and had considered Gide's probity and relentless self-dissection to be part of one of the truly triumphant feats of the civilized twentieth-century mind.†   (source)
  • We could not go fast because of the ice, but we drove relentlessly, hardly glancing at the passing of Texas beside us.†   (source)
  • The weather is as relentlessly hot as before.†   (source)
  • It came for the young as relentlessly as it came for the old.†   (source)
  • Luke had known, as if the knowledge were implicit in the trees and sky, knowledge beyond mere words or even feelings, that all their high and narrow hopes were doomed: each would glide toward the other one's death as the two sides of the pond glided gently and relentlessly toward the grassy outlet where the streams crossed and fell away to the river.†   (source)
  • Socialist reality: fighting night and day—the relentless battle-that's what they say, isn't it?†   (source)
  • Movement everywhere: a myriad arms, rising and falling, hands flailing, backs bending and straightening in a relentless rhythm.†   (source)
  • Old Solomon was far away in his sleep, his face looked small, relentless, and devout, as if he were walking somewhere where she could imagine the snow falling.†   (source)
  • It was anger for the relentless force of evolution that insisted on endowing man with increased powers without removing the vestigial vices that prevented him from using them.†   (source)
  • For, looking back, it seemed to her that all the people she had met were secretly, silently but relentlessly, persuading her to marry.†   (source)
  • Ever since I got here, I mean, we were just on each other relentlessly.†   (source)
  • Once my warriors catch its scent, they will pursue its owner relentlessly.†   (source)
  • Bulb by bulb, each one easier than the one before it, Thomas attacked relentlessly.†   (source)
  • But, though the night dragged relentlessly, it was not the worst night of my life.†   (source)
  • Scott had piqued my interest-more, even, than he probably realized-and he was relentless.†   (source)
  • Frustrated, I tapped and tugged relentlessly until finally, as if by magic, the horse's foot lifted.†   (source)
  • His face became tight as I badgered him relentlessly.†   (source)
  • Zeitoun was relentless in his efforts to pay the workers well and promptly.†   (source)
  • She's floating on her back, borne up by her belt and death, staring into that relentless sun.†   (source)
  • What happened was relentlessly and excruciatingly dull: I lay in a hospital bed and hurt.†   (source)
  • At the house, I was thrashed relentlessly.†   (source)
  • Relentless physical abuse had precipitated most of the deaths.†   (source)
  • I wondered if it was the relentless wind that made me imagine all the whispering.†   (source)
  • I screamed at him through my tears, which were flowing relentlessly now.†   (source)
  • The relentless march of time and the hoarding of resources.†   (source)
  • It was as difficult to stop his relentless pacing as to refrain from shouting.†   (source)
  • But many will be hunting for them, on the hush but relentlessly.†   (source)
  • "I think this goes more to the idea of 'relentless irony' than 'divine providence…"†   (source)
  • The relentless hammering continued as each sought an opening in the other's defenses.†   (source)
  • The surge of morphine seemed relentless now, but he knew God was guiding him.†   (source)
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